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This effort by Dove to raise women’s self-esteem may be well-executed, but that shouldn’t obscure the fact that it’s boooooogus. The sketch artist knew when he was drawing from women’s self-descriptions and when he was drawing from others’ descriptions. He could easily skew his drawings so that those from the self-descriptions were unflattering and those from others’ descriptions flattering. My cynical suspicion is that those were precisely his instructions. All the exercise proves is how eager a seller of soap is to convince women they’re more beautiful than they think and to have them associate its product with feelings of warmth and self-affirmation.